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No Change At Fox

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Media
Posted on Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 08:22:40 PM EST
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Funny one from DougJ:

Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network’s top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s political bias [. . .] Liasson was summoned in early October by [. . .] NPR executives [who] said they had concerns that Fox’s programming had grown more partisan, and they asked Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network.

At a follow-up meeting last month, Liasson reported that she’d seen no significant change in Fox’s programming and planned to continue appearing on the network [. . .]

(Emphasis supplied.) Honestly, who can quibble with Liasson's assessment? Fox has not changed in its entire existence - it has always been an arm of the Republican Party. The issue of course is that Liasson should not be on NPR. Let her stay on Fox. Just get her off of NPR.

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    Well if you viewed them philosophically (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by Socraticsilence on Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 09:03:45 PM EST
    instead of politically they're a bit odd- begin anti-government, highbly skeptical of Interventionism, spend 8 years essentially as the hand puppet of the state, then flip again to highly critical psuedo-libertarianism.

    Liasson is useless on NPR (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by samtaylor2 on Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 09:51:08 PM EST
    Juan Williams is just confusing.  He does some great stuff, but then has that amazing ability to flush it down the toilet real quick.  On fox I can't stand him, because he is allowing his blackness to be used.  I might agree with some Republican talking point, but I will be damned if I lend my voice and allow it to be used by people trying to hurt my people.  When you are a minority in this country, like it or not, you lose that freedom.

    Please explain (none / 0) (#5)
    by prittfumes on Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 10:10:29 PM EST
    . . . I will be damned if I lend my voice and allow it to be used by people trying to hurt my people.  When you are a minority in this country, like it or not, you lose that freedom.
    Are you implying that Fox is deliberately trying to hurt people?

    What "freedom" "like it or not" is Juan Williams not entitled to BECAUSE he is a minority?

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    Explanation (none / 0) (#9)
    by samtaylor2 on Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 09:08:14 AM EST
    As a black guy, you can lend yourself as a political shield for hateful comments against your people.  This is not unique to blacks it is any historically disempowered group.  In my view, this means that as a black person I can talk about how bad XYZ policy is or how much we need ZDW within my community and to my black friends, but that does not give me the right to go out of my community and say the same thing.  Because it opens the community up for an attack in a way that is not helpful.  

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    Thanks for your reply, ST2. (none / 0) (#11)
    by prittfumes on Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 11:43:06 AM EST
    Looks to me like you believe anything is permissible so long as it's kept in the family. Ergo, Williams should be allowed to freely express his opinions to his black friends within "the community" but he may not exercise his First Amendment rights elsewhere. Can't risk opening up "the community" to attack!

    By the way, you didn't say whether or not you believe Fox is deliberately trying to hurt people.

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    Yes (none / 0) (#13)
    by samtaylor2 on Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 07:15:18 PM EST
    First paragraph represents fairly how I feel.  I don't think Fox news thinks in those terms.  They think in terms of making money, and unfortunaely there are a lot of people that like there "news" like that.  

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    Is this an Irony thread? (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by Wile ECoyote on Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 01:44:48 PM EST
    I guess, like is perceived at Fox, the reporters at NPR must all march in lockstep.  It has to be an echo chamber of the left.  No differing opinions allowed, even if they aren't all that differing.  

    As goes Bob Edwards so goes (none / 0) (#1)
    by oculus on Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 08:30:51 PM EST
    Mara Liasson?

    As usual, . . . (none / 0) (#6)
    by Doc Rock on Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 07:59:30 AM EST
    . . . you seem to be reading my mind! I've been wondering, for quite awhile, why she's still on public radio without characterization as a Republican operative.

    She should challenge the NPR execs to listen (none / 0) (#7)
    by ruffian on Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 08:07:23 AM EST
    to a sample of the last couple years of their own news and commentary if they want to hear what a slide to the right really sounds like.

    agreed (none / 0) (#8)
    by Carolyn in Baltimore on Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 08:47:29 AM EST
    Listening to Cokie Roberts making fun of Dem reps who visited Iraq to see what it was like during the buildup of the war was the end for me.

    I knew her sister Barbara Sigmund and was appalled at Cokie's sellout.

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    No coincidence that the slide to the right (none / 0) (#10)
    by ruffian on Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 11:06:24 AM EST
    has coincided with the dumbing down. I can barely listen to it in the morning anymore. Steve Inskeep is intolerable.

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